Tag Archives: Judge Douglas E. Miller

A group of military families suing over mold exposure in government housing has survived an effort to shut down their case because of their halting production of social media during discovery. The plaintiff families made serial efforts to respond to ...

In this overtime pay suit against a government IT contractor, the Norfolk U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge conditionally certifies a class of network and system administrators who worked on defendant’s Military Sealift Command Afloat Contract out of defendant’s Chesapeake office. ...

In plaintiff military families’ lawsuit seeking damages for mold exposure in military rental housing, a TV station and reporter who were subpoenaed by defendants have a qualified reporter’s privilege, but the Norfolk U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge says they must ...

The parents of a 13-year-old girl with autism who do not want the specialized educational services their daughter requires delivered at the specialty center identified by defendant school board have not made the required showing in their suit under the ...

As plaintiff bank settled its collection action on a Promissory Note by settling with six guarantors and jointly moving for a voluntary dismissal, a Norfolk U.S. District Court says a defendant who opposed dismissal cannot pursue cross-claims against the settling ...

A Newport News U.S. District Court says a Kroger store is not entitled to summary judgment on its defense of contributory negligence to a personal injury suit filed by a woman who alleges she injured her wrist and leg when ...

Adopting the recommendation of a magistrate judge, the Norfolk U.S. District Court dismisses a suit filed by a former volunteer police auxiliary police officer of the Chesapeake Police Department who alleges disability discrimination and violation of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination ...

A general contractor does not have a right to set off money a masonry subcontractor owed on a non-bonded school project against money owed a surety on a bonded federal government project; the Norfolk U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge says ...

A protective services company that settled a failure-to-hire disability discrimination case by agreeing to pay plaintiff $72,000, including attorney’s fees of $28,800, and that has failed to make payments, appear in court or respond to its lawyer’s attempts to contact ...

A Tiffany presentation sword presented to Col. Rush Hawkins in May 1863 and conveyed to plaintiff Brown University as part of the Annmary Brown Memorial was stolen from the Memorial sometime before 1977, and because the thief could not convey ...